GRE Word List
PHYSIOGNOMY
the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance
The meaning of the word physiognomy is the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| significant | having meaning |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |